Resources for May 8 & 15, 2008 meetings


Blog post on the need for textbooks by Carl Fisch

Andrew Church's wiki on Bloom's Taxonomy and technology

Text to Speech and other software


ReadPlease - free text to speech software for Windows. Reads any text that you can cut and paste into the program

Text Aloud - text to speech software. Reads documents and web pages. Also allows export to audio file types. Free trial but costs $29.95 to buy

Click, Speak - Extension for Firefox that add text to speech capabilities to the toolbar

Natural Reader - Text to Speech software. Free version converts any written text such as MS Word, Webpage, PDF files, and Emails into spoken words. Paid version will convert written text into audio files such as MP3 or WAV.

Word Talk - a free plug-in for Word to add text-to-speech

Word Web - free thesaurus, dictionary for your computer

Spoken Text - text to audio (mp3) converter

Rubric Creation Sites


Rubistar

Rubric Builder - from the Landmark Project

Assessment Generators - from the Canadian Teacher site

teAchnology Rubric site

Flash Cards/Online review activities


Cue Card 1.5 - flash cards that you can do on the computer or print off

Flash Card Machine - Create your own online flashcards or use ones that others have created

Study Stack - Create your own online flashcards, hangman game, crossword puzzle, matching, word search, or word scramble

Other Things


Online Timer/Stopwatch - run it from the web